Anyone upgrading to Windows 11?

[Greninji88]

So, Windows 10 is officially end of life, as you all know. My laptop from 2012s done well, a couple upgrades and now it's stably running Windows 10. And if course, once I've got it stable, it's OS becomes discontinued. If I try, I'm sure it can run Windows 11 ok, but I'm keeping it at 10. Is the upgrade to Windows 11 worth it in anyone's opinion? Thanks!

 

[Hayato213]

If it is from 2012 probably it doesn't even officially support windows 11.

 

[tech3475]

Given the age of the machine, I'm guessing it won't be officially supported.

There are of course unofficial ways to install it and it may work, but there is also a chance it may be broken by a future update.

Drivers could also potentially cause issues, I had some issues on my system which took time to isolate the cause of and possibly need to disable things like memory integrity protection.

Personally, if it's an 'important' system, I would either look at ways to extend it another year or look at Linux before considering the unofficial W11 install.

Edit:

Remember, there is software which can image the drive, allowing for easy restores.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Windows 11 is fine. It's Windows, for better and for worse. This "Windows 10 is the best! I hate Windows 11" bandwagon just seems utterly pointless to me. They're both *fine enough*, but also annoying at times.

 

[DragonMals]

upgraded my machine from Windows 11 to Tiny11 for both gaming and college laptops, and proceeded after getting everything in terms of updates finished, I've finished it off with debloat11 and Christools to get my software and ill never look back. Its kinda cursed not having Edge but everyone's lying when it says that your PC turns into a nonfunctional system when without Edge and Firefox in its place, everything actually works properly!

 

[DinohScene]

Upgraded a week orso before the deadline and still am of the opinion 7 is the last great modern MS OS.

 

[DragonMals]

and still am of the opinion 7 is the last great modern MS OS.

Based Dinnoh

 

[Arakon]

Slap Explorerpatcher and OpenShell on there and it actually becomes usable without the icon overload and spam crap.

 

[NitroShell]

So, Windows 10 is officially end of life, as you all know. My laptop from 2012s done well, a couple upgrades and now it's stably running Windows 10. And if course, once I've got it stable, it's OS becomes discontinued. If I try, I'm sure it can run Windows 11 ok, but I'm keeping it at 10. Is the upgrade to Windows 11 worth it in anyone's opinion? Thanks!

I have when It came out but the new updates are lowkey breaking my computer recently and it's stupid, apparently they are using ai now to code.

 

[Xdqwerty]

If I could, I would, but not vanilla Windows 11 but rather one of those "Lite" versions

 

[Kraken_X]

If your PC doesn't support Win11, there is a way to convert Windows 10 to the IoT LTSC (Internet of things long term service branch), without losing any data. That gives you Win 10 updates until 2029. Otherwise if you sign up for a Microsoft account, you can get updates until around this time in 2026.

Otherwise Win11 is fine... There is nothing it does better than 10 and a number of things it does worse, but overall it's functional. Most of the stuff that's annoying can be disabled or changed.

Linux works great too for web browsing (Firefox), office work (LibreOffice), local media playboack (VLC), and basic gaming (Steam, RetroArch). Interface-wise, Linux Mint is closer to Win10 than Win11 is too.

 

[XFoxPrower]

I agree, 7 was best. 8 came along and showed the fancy Aero & rounded edges in the bootable install environment. Then took all that away, not even available, because Microsoft knows best and they'd rather you get papercuts on sharp corners of flat colors. Then 10 went monochrome, all to accommodate the phone users with 32KB or so video ram. Now Windows 11 removed the ability to see the seconds on the clock and buried the calendar. What's a power user to do? I don't own a PC anymore, but if I ever do, I'm considering Linux.

 

[DragonMals]

If I could, I would, but not vanilla Windows 11 but rather one of those "Lite" versions

Before even thinking about the Tiny11 process, I'd suggest putting this in the completed bootable USB or on seperate storage: A note of the following:

an EXE of Firefox or a browser of your choice (since Tiny11 doesn't come w/ Edge)
Debloat 11's Powershell Script
Christools' Powershell Script

1. Get Windows 11 though MS' Official Website
2. Mount the ISO using File Explorer
3. Download Tiny11builder and run it through Powershell and ensure that the drive it asks for is connected to the ISO you've mounted
4. Let the proccess do it's thing and once it's done, Tiny11 will create an ISO of itself at the same place where you've unzipped the Tiny11 PowerShell contents
5. Create a bootable USB using the newly installed Tiny11 ISO using Rufus/Ventoy
6. Get Tiny11 installed on your machine
7. Get every necessary update installed, and THEN use Debloat11's script in Powershell to get rid of the extra contents
8. I know that Debloat11 will ask for you to create a restore point, but I always like to do the restore point AFTER the debloat script has been applied. Delete the restore point debloat11 makes, and after the script's done, make a new restore point.
9. Download Firefox or your favorite browser of your choice
10. Install any apps you usually tend to use

and you're good to go.

 

[Cranesbill]

Do I have to :/

 

[DragonMals]

Do I have to :/

take the method that i've posted above and the experience isn't as bad. All you just need to do is to check if MS puts anything on your PC from time to time, and if so, Debloat11 is your friend

 

[Cranesbill]

take the method that i've posted above and the experience isn't as bad. All you just need to do is to check if MS puts anything on your PC from time to time, and if so, Debloat11 is your friend

Yeah uhhh I don't know how to do any of that

 

[DragonMals]

Yeah uhhh I don't know how to do any of that

i just told the other person! you just need to follow the instructions

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you could try practicing in a vm if you don't know how to do such

 

[Jayinem]

Nope, couldn't care less about M$ "security updates". I'm never upgrading from 10 unless I can't use an internet browser.

 

[MeXen]

Ah Hell No...

 

[Sicklyboy]

If your PC doesn't support Windows 11 natively:

1, download the windows 11 iso https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
2, download rufus https://rufus.ie/en/
3, plug in a flash drive and use rufus to write the iso to the flash drive. It will ask if you want to disable the TPM and processor checks and disable telemetry
4, while you're still booted into windows 10, run the installer on the flash drive. You will do an in-place upgrade to windows 11 and keep your files.

I did this 2 weeks ago for my mom's PC that has my old Intel i5-4690k from 2014 in it. Worked perfectly.

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In my case, no. I ditched Win10 and installed Proxmox (Debian based hypervisor suite) on my desktop and moved to using an Arch Linux VM as my daily driver with hardware passthrough so I can still use my GPU, monitors, mouse and keyboard, etc. as if the Arch VM were the bare metal OS